I have had replies to the letters I sent out last week, I knew I would not have the time to properly get in contact with all the injured parties for my designated crimes to investigate and I needed a number of basic statements to pursue the cases and late one night I quickly typed out a number of statements and letters to be mailed for return as the recent abstractions due to the incidents meant I would be standing out side train stations.

Well I must admit the Letters were far more effective than a telephone call or a visit.It appears that people respond more to an "official police letter"

I will certainly be using it more often in the future especially for requests for CCTV to be made available and ready for collection. An unexpected bouns also means copies of the letters can also go with the case files as unused material.

Monday, August 08, 2005

A quick trip away as a break from the madness,I needed to see clean fresh snow and sunny sky's after the drib and drab summer I have seen due to the late shift malarky.

Upon my return I have noted the lack of response to any of my letters or enquires for my beat crimes by the Injured parties or managers of shops regarding cctv. I think I will spend the next few days driving around to chase these people to see if I can progress any. I don't hold up much hope tho. A shame really as it would be nice to bring some of these wrong doers to the courts and put them before the man.

Another impending dread is that I will be moving house soon, and I have to go thru the whole packing and moving palava. Oh joy, anyone know a man with a van ?

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

Well I have been on duty every day since my last post.This is the first chance I have had to post anything.

I am tired, cold,wet thru and hungry but a lot of overtime pay is coming my way.Its weird to think of the money earned during these difficult times, and where was it before when we needed it to do the day to day policing before.

I also noted that there was an announcement about the mets forensic lab bill that was in the millions of pounds before the attacks and that we should be looking to reduce it, I guess we found the money.

(less than five) - Five or less days notice to planned overtime aid - Overtime pay rates.